Blackpool Better Start policy
How we use cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree (please read the information on how to control and manage cookies on your device below). Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device or computer’s hard drive.
We use the following types of cookies on the Blackpool Better Start website:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
- Analytical cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functional
- Targeting
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Category | Cookie Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| STRICTLY NECESSARY | eupubconsent | This cookie is used by the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework to store the user’s consent to the data collection Purposes. The cookie holds an encrypted consent string that vendors participating in the framework can read and determine the user’s consent. |
| STRICTLY NECESSARY | OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. |
| STRICTLY NECESSARY | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. |
| ANALYTICS | _ga, _gat, _gid | We use this to understand how the site is being used in order to improve the user experience. User data is all anonymous |
| ANALYTICS | _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit. |
| ANALYTICS | _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
| ANALYTICS | hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. |
| ANALYTICS | _hjFirstSeen | Identifies a new user’s first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar’s seeing this user for the first time. |
| ANALYTICS | _hjid | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
| ANALYTICS | _hjIncludedInSessionSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s daily session limit. |
| FUNCTIONAL | Vuid | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing |
| TARGETING | lang | This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting. Twitter does not currently provide information on the use of specific cookies. |
| TARGETING | test_cookie | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange |
| TARGETING | GPS, CONSENT | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
| STRICTLY NECESSARRY | _cfduid | This domain is owned by OneTrust, a privacy management software which helps organizations achieve compliance with global regulations. |
Third Party Cookies
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies and these named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies.
We use the following third-party cookies:
- Google Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- HotJar
- Google DoubleClick
- Youtube
You can manage the use of Analytics and Third Party cookies here:
This enables you to provide consent for each of these categories of cookies to be set on your device or hard drive and withdraw your consent at any time. Details for these privacy policies as shown in our Cookie Policy for further information.
Controlling cookies generally
You can manage the use of non-Strictly Necessary cookies including third party cookies here:
This enables you to provide consent for each of these categories of cookies to be set on your device or hard drive and withdraw your consent at any time. To provide your consent click on “This is okay”. To withhold your consent or change your preferences in the future click on “No customize” and select your preferences.
You should also visit the privacy notices of any third parties in relation to the third parties cookies described above.
Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies unless you change your browser settings. If you wish to restrict, block or delete the cookies which are set by any websites, you can generally do this through your browser settings. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your internet browser.
Please note however that if you set your internet browser preferences to block all cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our Blackpool Better Start website.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit http://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/.